August, 2016

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TOPYX Learning Management System Makes The Inc. 5000 List For Third Consecutive Year

TOPYX LMS

BONITA SPRINGS, FL – August 18, 2016 – Interactyx, the developer of TOPYX® learning management system (LMS) , is excited to announce it has earned a spot on Inc. magazine’s Inc. 5000 listing of fastest-growing private companies for the third year in a row. For 35 years, Inc. magazine has welcomed the fastest-growing private companies in America into this very exclusive club ( [link] ).

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Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: How eLearning Puts Job-Seekers Ahead

OpenSesame

Let’s be honest; trying to find a job is scary. The thought of an interview alone is enough to make millions of people around the world break into a cold sweat. In addition to the intimidating screening and interviewing process, people often doubt whether they have the qualifications to succeed at a potential job. Companies preach that prospective employees must have the necessary KSA’s– knowledge, skills and abilities– to be successful.

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Insider top tips on protecting your training material

Saffron Interactive

I wanted to mark the start of season 2 of the hit TV show Mr. Robot with this blog post. The show is a gripping drama following a young programmer. The post Insider top tips on protecting your training material appeared first on Saffron Interactive.

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Presentation Skills: How to Have a Great Learning Experience

Infopro Learning

One of the best articles about presentation skills I’ve seen is “ How to Give a Killer Presentation ,” It appeared in the June 2013 issue of Harvard Business Review and was written by Chris Anderson. He’s the curator of TED, described as a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. TED talks started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, and Design.

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From Predictive to Agile: How to Choose the Right Project Management Methodology

Our profession is undergoing a transformation, moving away from rigid, one-size-fits-all methodologies. Instead, project managers are embracing dynamic and adaptable frameworks that carefully consider project and product variables to determine the most suitable development approaches and project life cycles.

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Ten Tips for Hiring a Stellar eLearning Freelancer by David Wood

LearningGuild

Are you looking for help developing eLearning content? The fast-growing freelance market can provide a wealth of skills and expertise that is cost-effective, flexible, and agile. These 10 tips will help you hire the best eLearning freelancer.

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Interactyx Named To Florida Companies On Growth “Watch” List

TOPYX LMS

BONITA SPRINGS, FL – August 17, 2016 – Interactyx, the developer of the TOPYX® learning management system (LMS) software , is honored to be named among 50 statewide companies expected to see significant growth over the next several years. Interactyx was selected from more than 500 nominees for Florida Companies to Watch™, a statewide program managed by economic development group GrowFL, in association with the Edward Lowe Foundation.

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Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: How eLearning Puts Job-Seekers Ahead

OpenSesame

Let’s be honest; trying to find a job is scary. The thought of an interview alone is enough to make millions of people around the world break into a cold sweat. In addition to the intimidating screening and interviewing process, people often doubt whether they have the qualifications to succeed at a potential job. Companies preach that prospective employees must have the necessary KSA’s-- knowledge, skills and abilities-- to be successful.

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2016 eLearning Hype Curve Follow Up

Web Courseworks

Last December, we placed some of eLearning’s most interesting trends on the hype curve. Now that we are over halfway through 2016, we felt it was time to reflect on how well our predictions played out here at Web Courseworks as well as the eLearning industry. Innovation Trigger. Physical Simulators and EHR-integrated Performance Improvement Activities – Next Generation CME White Paper.

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Book Review: Performance-Focused Smile Sheets

Experiencing eLearning

On a scale from 1 to 5, how useful are your current level 1 evaluations or “smile sheets”? Completely worthless. Mostly worthless. Not too bad. Mostly useful. Extremely useful. Chances are, your training evaluations aren’t very helpful. How much useful information do you really get from those forms? If you know that one of your courses is averaging a 3.5 and another course is averaging a 4.2, what does that really mean?

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The Best Skills Analysis Tools for Upskilling

Faster than ever, the world is shifting and shaping how people work, exposing and creating deep skill divides across industries and around the world. As a result, business and HR leaders are scrambling to “upskill” employees. If you’re scrambling to upskill your employees but don’t know where to start, make skills analysis a routine part of your decision-making process.

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Modern Professional Learning (MPL) meets Modern Workplace Learning (MWL)

Jane Hart

Modern Professional Learning (MPL), an approach which many professionals are now (consciously or unconsciously) adopting, involves taking responsibility for their own career and self-development through continuous learning, on demand problem solving and getting the most out of their daily work. A large part of it happens, of course, outside of their organisation – primarily on the Web.

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The Data Behind Game Based Learning

LearnDash

For many people the thought of using “games” in a classroom environment seems like it would be more of a distraction than anything else. I can recall times during grade school when we would have a classroom oriented game and things would get out of hand quickly. Some children would become way too competitive, others would dominate their group, and others still would disengage altogether.

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Can Learning Management Systems Foster Experiential Knowledge in the Workplace?

TOPYX LMS

In your personal opinion, what type of value does experiential learning hold? Before you answer, there are two things you must have understanding of: what this type of learning is and what it can accomplish. First, experiential learning is a process that facilitates the acquisition of specific knowledge and skills through real-life experience. Second, this type of learning has the power to transform employees’ attitudes about training, increase knowledge retention, and create a learning culture

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How to Persuade your Boss to Invest in an LMS

Gyrus

How to Persuade your Boss to Invest in an LMS. Your learning program has been managing itself for years, or at least that’s what your boss thinks. But you know the dark secret that is lurking barely below the surface. You spend a ridiculous amount of time organizing and determining methods of learning dispersal among personnel within your organization.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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Calculating the Return on Investment (ROI) for your LMS

Lambda Solutions

If you’re adopting a learning management system (LMS), then chances are you will need to prove the return on investment (ROI). The method for proving ROI of your LMS will depend on the method your company is currently using for training. We’ll explore some of the differences below.

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Past Event: Training, Learning and Development Conference (San Diego, October 3-5, 2016)

Learningtogo

Have you ever come home from an exciting conference and found yourself wondering, “What exactly did I get out of this event?”. Conferences can be exciting and energizing, but if you haven’t taken the time to assimilate new information your brain doesn’t get a chance to move essential pieces of your experience into longer-term memory. That’s why I’m so excited to be a part of the Training, Learning and Development Conference , (TLDC) in San Diego.

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How To Train Your Millennial

Dashe & Thomson

There are 83.1 millennials in the U.S. , and they get a bad rap. They are often characterized as a generation continually over-rewarded for under-performance. It’s assumed that since millennials took home trophies for fifth place as kids, they will expect similar rewards for mediocre performance throughout their careers. What, Exactly, is a Millenial?

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Demand for Online Proctoring is Growing

LearnDash

The rapid growth the elearning industry has created opportunities in many segments. Today we see a ton of learning management systems, social learning program, course retailers, online course marketplaces, mobile learning platforms, and so on. There is quite a bit of innovation in the elearning space, especially evident in the last five years. With more and more people taking online courses for formal degrees the idea of an online course isn’t as off-putting as it once was in the past.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Learning Management Systems Promote Knowledge Sharing

TOPYX LMS

There are few intangible things that are as sought after in the corporate world as good company culture. Leaders know that their organizations’ ultimate success and growth is dependent upon culture, not solely, but majorly. F. John Reh wrote, “ Company culture is important because it can make or break your company. Companies with an adaptive culture that is aligned to their business goals routinely outperform their competitors.

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How to Train and Develop Millennials

Gyrus

How to Train and Develop Millennials. Everywhere you look there are posts about millennials, mainly focusing on their abilities in comparison to their predecessors. There are some really fun ones out there, about how millennials are weaker than their parents, and how their neurological wiring explains their short attention spans. Most importantly these articles are mostly drawn up in the marketing world, and with good reason.

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Being Bold and Imagining the Different

Performance Learning Productivity

Last Thursday 25th August marked the centenary of the US National Parks Service. The natural beauty of these places across the North American continent is unquestionable. They are amongst some of the greatest treasures the USA and the world possess. But they haven’t always been seen that way. The father of today’s National Parks was John Muir. Born in Dunbar on the south east coast of Scotland, Muir was the son of a Calvinist who believed anything that distracted from Bible studies was frivolous

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Cloud Authoring

Web Courseworks

The “Cloud”. Ever since “the cloud” came to the internet and computer world, it has always had this magic allure. The cloud is a space in the internet that stores your data, can be accessed from anywhere in the world, but it’s intangible. “The Cloud” has been created into a buzzword that people assume refers to a mystical, giant hard drive that floats somewhere deep in our internet’s space-time continuum and makes life very easy for those who want to store and share a lot of data.

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What Is the Actual Cost of an Open Role in Your Company?

In today's tight labor market, hiring and retaining top talent is more challenging than ever. Every day a job remains unfilled means lost productivity and revenue. But vacancies can affect much more than your revenue. There are multiple direct and indirect costs, and it's crucial to adapt your recruiting strategies to prioritize the most costly open roles.

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2016 LMS Market Overview

Lambda Solutions

The learning management system (LMS) market is growing fast and it doesn’t look like its about to slow down anytime soon. According to Forbes the LMS market was well over $2.5 billion and will grow to $8 billion by 2018 with North America leading the market share.

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Past Event: Smarter Brains for a Smarter Organization – Online workshop for Enterprise Learning Conference Online (Sept 8, 2016)

Learningtogo

Register here: [link]. In order to build a smarter organization you need to start with smarter brains. The pace of change today demands that your team become nimble, ready to respond to new threats and capitalize on new opportunities with utmost speed and mental agility. However, the human brain evolved over centuries to keep us alive, so it is still responding to our current work environment as though we are hunting for food – and trying to avoid being hunted – on a daily basis.

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GAMIFICATION FOR CORPORATE LEARNING

Learnnovators

The post GAMIFICATION FOR CORPORATE LEARNING appeared first on Learnnovators.

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The Most Common Mistakes to Avoid When Choosing an LMS

eLearning Architect

There are over 700 LMS on the market. It's a minefield. Choosing the correct one can make or break a project. In this article, I'll outline some common mistakes that should be avoided when you choose your next LMS. I spoke at length with a client last night who was looking to choose an LMS for his company. He had spent some time looking through some of Google's highest ranked search results, but was lost amongst a sea of features and functionality.

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Accelerating Change in the Insurance Industry: Why You Need to Invest in Talent Strategy

This whitepaper brings together research, expert opinion and industry trend data to help senior leaders understand current challenges and future-proof their businesses. Inside you’ll find insights on: The big challenges: From automation to onboarding, we explore the big challenges facing the sector. Onboarding: You only get one chance to make a first impression.

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iSpring Authoring Tool and JoomlaLMS. 10% Discount Coupon is inside

JoomlaLMS

Here at JoomlaLMS we are constantly asked to recommend an authoring tool that first, works well with JoomlaLMS Learning Management System, and second, doesn’t break the client’s budget. If the first criterion is easily met (JoomlaLMS is AICC, SCORM 1.2 and 2004 compliant and works fine with any authoring tool supporting those formats), the second one slightly puzzles us as the authoring tools’ prices, in the case of wide functionality, can be over $2000.

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Putting Trust First

Learning Rebels

First a short story. . This weekend I was out and about when I was hit with the inspiration to make Chili Verde. I had all the ingredients at home, except for tomatillos. This would mean a trip to my favorite market, but it was really out of the way so I decided to stop by another popular store in the area. What a mistake. No, No, No. All I saw upon entering the store, were a series of signs that said no this, no that.

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Collaborating when it matters

Clark Quinn

A dear friend and colleague just wrote about his recent (and urgent) chemo and surgery. I won’t bore you with the details (the odds are you don’t know him), but one thing stuck with me that I do want to share. As context, he discovered he had a rare and aggressive cancer, and this ventured into the unknown, with a sense of urgency. He fortunately had access to arguably the world’s best resources on this, but the ‘rare’ bit means that there wasn’t a lot of